Well this is it. I've been meaning to start my own blog for a long time, mainly as an outlet for some of my thoughts on current advances in many of the sub-fields of evolutionary research.Besides my aims to showcase academic research, I am also particularly interested in the role of science in society, and even more interested in ill conceived ideas which interrupt that role. Namely, religion, pseudoscience and all round quackery.I don't envisage this blog to be a hothouse for science writing on the scale of Pharyngula or NeuroLogica, but I certainly aspire to it.

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About the authors

Kevin Keenan is currently working towards a PhD in population and evolutionary genetics. His general research interests include; small scale intraspecific genetic divergence, speciation and phylogeography.

Uncle Mick is currently reading genetics at the University of Manchester.His interests include; the role of non-coding RNA in regulatory processes, molecular processes associated with sequencing technology, and the interactions between genotype and phenotype.